Re: Miapimoquitch cat's cradle

In a message dated 4/14/02 08.22.46 AM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR writes:

>I completely agree with your critics. Myself use a version of X-SAMPA with
>& for ae-ligature, and ' for primary stress and , for secondary stress, to
>look more like IPA. Though ' for primary and " for secondary could do too :).
    I still like Joerg's CPA, but have started learning and using (abusing?)
X-SAMPA. Credit and/or blame Christophe ;) for that.

    For me, what would be ideal is some _useable, user-friendly_ form of
phonemic orthography using the Roman alphabet - plus a few diacritics and
accents - that works (somewhat) like IPA but actually "looks good" as well -
in both hard-copy print and ASCII.
    Perhaps some hybrid thing along the lines of Inglish Spelin
Reeform/Zheo-Inglis combined with Gwoyeu romatzyh ("national romanization")
devised by Lin Yu-t'ang and Chao Yuen-ren in the 1930's for Mandarin (& other
regionalects of Chinese as well), eh?

Hanuman Zhang
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